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A08690	The vnmasking of all popish monks, friers, and Iesuits. Or, A treatise of their genealogie, beginnings, proceedings, and present state Together with some briefe obseruations of their treasons, murders, fornications, impostures, blasphemies, and sundry other abominable impieties. Written as a caueat or forewarning for Great Britaine to take heed in time of these romish locusts. By Lewis Owen.	Owen, Lewis, 1572-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 18998; ESTC S113782	125,685	175

at length retired to Subl●cum a towne distant forty miles from Rome whither many people by reason of the great fame of his integrity and holinesse of life resorted vnto him but within a while he departed thence and repaired to Cassinum an ancient City in that Region where he built a Monasterie and in a very short time gathered together all such Monks as then wandred here and there in the Woods and Desarts of Italy and gaue them certaine rules and statutes to obserue and keepe And withall bound them to three seuerall Vowes the which were neuer heard of before that S. Basil had ordained them in the East Country to his Monks which was about the yeere 383. for Basil was the first that gaue Rules or Orders vnto Monks Among other Lawes and Statutes hee ordained that after that a Monk had remained the space of one whole yeere in his Abbey if so be that he was willing to continue there still hee should make three seuerall solemne Vowes first to liue chastly but with this Prouiso Si non castè tamen cautè that is to say if he could not liue chastly he should goe about his bunesse warily Secondarily to possesse nothing And thirdly to obey his Superiours in what thing soeuer they should command him Which decree of Benet or rather of Basil but receiued and allowed of by Benet was ratified by the Church of Rome for an Euangelicall Law or Decree Againe Benet gaue his Monklings a new kinde of foolish habit appointing them also a certaine forme of praying allowing them but meane Commons and withall a new manner of Abstinence that was likewise neuer heard of before But now the world is altered with them for whosoeuer will suruay or view them well shall see that they liue like Princes and farre more like Epicures than Religious men as all those that are or haue beene acquainted with them can testifie This Congregation of Saint Benet grew by little and little to be so great that it is almost incredible Yet in the end there hapned such a Schisme among them that it was and still is diuided into many families as Cluniacenses Camalduenses Vallisumbrenses Montoliuetenses Grandimontenses Cistercienses Syluestrenses Coelestini and diuers others who are now adaies either vnited with other Orders or else quite extirpated and abolished All these seuerall Sects of Monks who apply their minds to nothing else but to sloth idlenesse gluttony idolatry whordome fornication and the like impietie vnlesse it be to inuent and bring in daily more new Sects of Monks and Friers are reported to haue proceeded from the first Family of Saint Benet Those that were first instituted by this Saint as they themselues confesse are those that now adaies weare a blacke loose Coat of stuffe reaching downe to their heeles with a Cowle or hood to couer their bald Pates which hangs downe to their shoulders and their Scapular shorter than any other of these Monks and vnder that Coat another white Habit as large as the former made of Stuffe or white Flannen They shaue the haires of their heads except one little round circle which they leaue round about their heads which they call Corona their Crowne forsooth because they would bee honoured as Kings and Princes By the rule that their Patron gaue them they are bound to abstaine perpetually from flesh vnlesse when they are sicke And therfore these immodest moderne Monks who doe eat Flesh daily except the time of Lent and other fish daies must of necessity be alwaies sicke vnlesse they will impudently confesse as indeed they cannot deny but that they obserue not the Lawes and Statutes of their Patron Saint Benet and therein haue infringed and falsified one of their vnlawfull Vowes Where you may obserue that this Monasticall Institution being but humane and not grounded or warranted by the Word of God did not continue long inuiolated the nature of men being inclined yea in the best things to wax daily rather worse than better And therefore the Benedictin Monks haue contaminated their former Piety and Deuotions with the Mammon of this world as Promotions Sloth Gluttony and all manner of Luxury which was the cause that this one Family was so rent and diuided into so many Sects and Schismes as daily experience teacheth vs. How religiously they haue liued heretofore and still liue those that are conuersant in their owne Histories and haue trauelled in forraigne Countries can best tell to their perpetuall shame although our new vpstart English Benedictin Monks would haue the world beleeue that their Order first planted the Christian Religion in this Land and that the Monks of their Order were euer godly and religious men and therefore not to be ranked with the Iesuites who are great Statesmen for they good Monks meddle not with matters of State or with Kings affaires but for all their counterfeit holinesse let me tell them in their eares that an English Benedictin of Swinsteed Abbey poisoned King Iohn for the which fact he was and still is highly honoured by all Papists in generall And one saith of him thus Iohannes Maior de gestis Scotorum lib. 4. c. 3. Cluniacenses Regem perimere meritorium ratus est he thought it a meritorious deed to kill the King The Monks that are called Cluniacenses being formerly of the Congregation of Benet were first instituted in Burgundie by one Otho an Abbot of that Congregation vnto whom William surnamed the Godly Duke of Aquitaine gaue a certaine Village called Mastick and other lands towards their maintenance which was about the yeare of our Lord DCCCCXVI Camalduenses Not long after the Camalduenses Monks started vp the Author of it was one Romoaldus who had beene formerly a Monk of Benets Order in a Cloister neare Rauenna in Italy from whence he made an escape to the Prouince of Hetruria which is now the Duke of Florence his Dominion where hauing obtained a cōuenient place of one Modulus he built a Monastery on the top of the Appenine hills and there erected another new Family These Monks weare a white habite and professe to lead a very austere kinde of life but to say the truth all is but meere hypocrisie Vallis-vmbresenses In the other side of those former hilles at a place called Vallis-Vmbrosa in the yeare of our Lord 1060. one Iohn Gualbertus a Florentine instituted another new Family of Monks who did weare a purple habite Monteliuetenses The Monteliuetenses began to peepe out about the yeare 1047. at the same time when there were three seuerall Popes liuing who troubled all Christendome for the Papacie The Institutor of this Family of Monks was one Bernardus Ptolomeus they liued at the first at Sienna a Citie in Tuscan in Italy but afterwards hauing gathered their crummes together they built an Abbey on the top of an high hill not farre from thence they weare a white habite this Family was approued by Pope Gregory the twelfth Grandimontenses The Author or

Institutor of the Grandimontensian Monks was one Stephen a Noble-man borne in Auernia in France who gaue them much about that time large possessions and reuenues to maintaine themselues withall The Cistercienses or Bernanardin Monks And about the very selfe-same time one Robert Abbot of Molismenia perceiuing how the old Benedictin Monks had then almost quite left and forsaken the ancient rule and discipline that Benet had giuen them accompanied with more than twentie other Monks repaired to a place called Sistercium in Burgundie being an horrible stupendious place and not inhabited and there erected another new Family and called them Sistercienses of the place he built his first Abbey In the yeare of our Lord MXCVIII The Bernardin Monks Saint Bernard being a man nobly descended in Burgundie and one that before that time had vndertaken this Monastical life at Cistercium aforesaid became very famous as wel for his learning as for his sanctitie of life and therefore was chosen to bee Abbat of the Abbey of Claranallensis which Abbey one Robert a Noble-man of that Countrey had then lately built and then began the Order of the Monks of Saint Bernard but to say the truth the Cistercensian Monks and the Bernardine are all one sauing a little in their habite for the Bernardins weare a blacke gowne ouer a white coat and the Cistercians all white and yet the Bernardins weare most commonly euery festiuall day the habite of the Cistercians to shew the beginning of their Order as Seb. Franckin witnesseth Seb. Fran. Chron. folio 470. These Bernardine Monks haue their Abbeyes for the most part in some pleasant valley neare to some riuer side accommodated with woods and groues as an ancient Poet well obserued in these verses Semper enim valles Syluestribus vndique cinctos Arboribus Diuus Bernardus amaenaque prata Et fluuios c. amabat That is to say In valleyes and groues neare some riuer side The Bernardine Monks doe loue to reside The Celestine Monks About some fourescore and foure yeares after one Petrus Moronēus who had beene formerly an Anchorite and afterwards Pope and called Caelestinus the fift erected an Order of Monks and called them Caelestini His Order was confirmed in the Councell of Lyons by Pope Gregory the tenth who gaue them many priuileges and indulgences they obserue the rule of Saint Benet An. Dom. 1294. This Sect or Family did afterwards increase so fast that within few yeares hee himselfe did consecrate six and thirty Cloisters for them in Italy wherein were six hundred Monks afterwards they came to inhabite all Christendome Their first comming into England was in the yeare 1414. Surius in Caelestino tom 3. de vitis Sanctorū Vide Tho. Walsingham George Lilyus and Balaeus Centuria 7. cap. 50. in Appendice There is also a Confraternitie or Brotherhood of this Order Their Institutor gaue his Monks among other things this caueat Tunc Caelestinus eris si caelestia mediteris that is to say Thou shalt be a Caelestin in deed that is a heauenly man if thou wilt alwaies meditate vpon heauenly things They weare a kinde of a Skie-coloured habite ouer a white coat and doe neuer or seldome eat flesh and haue their Monasteries in some fertile and pleasant soile and most commonly a mile or two from any Towne or Citie Of the Gilbertin Monks and Nuns THe Institutor of this Sect was one Gilbert of Sempringham a Knights sonne borne at Sempringham in Lincolne-shire his fathers name was Iocelin This Gilbert was a man very deformed in his body but very studious and learned and withall very superstitious as most men then were After such time that hee had spent some certaine yeares in France in study he repaired backe to England vnto whom many people resorted by reason of the great fame of his holy life And in a very short time he erected thirteen Cloisters of Friers and Nunnes whereof the chiefest was at Sempringham Anno 1148. wherein were as Balaeus witnesseth seuen hundred Friers and eleuen hundred Nunns Capgrauus Scropus in Chron. And about the yeare 1148. he went againe into France to Pope Eugenius the third who then liued at Auignon to haue his Order confirmed who admiring much at his deuotion and forwardnesse confirmed his Order From thence he came backe to England and gaue his Friers and Nunns a Rule which he had formerly taken out of Saint Benet and Saint Augustines Rules Of these Religious Votaries chastitie one Nigellus Wireker an ancient Poet wrote these ensuing verses Nigellus in speculo stultorum Quid de Sempringham quantùm aut qualia dicam Nescio nam nouares me dubitare facit Hoc tamen ad presens nulla ratione remittam Nam necesse nimis fratribus esse reor Quod nunquam nisi clam nulla sciente sororum Cum quocunque suo fratre manere licet Thus I finde these Verses of Sempringham Englished many yeares since What should I much prate An order it is begun of late Yet will I not let the matter so passe The silly Friers and Nunnes alasse Can haue no meeting but late in the darke And this you know well is a heauie warke The same Poet wrote likewise these Verses Canonici Missam tantùm reliquumque sorores Explent officij debitajura sui Corpora non voces murus distinguit in vnum Psallant directo Psalmatis absque mero That is to say The Monks sing the Masse the Nuns sing the other Thus doe the Sisters take part with the Brother Bodies not voices a wall doth disseuer Without deuotion they sing together And of the Nunnes he wrote thus Harum sunt quaedam steriles quaedam parientes Virgineo tamen nomine cuncta tegunt Quae pastoralis baculi dotatur honore Illa quidem melius fertiliusque parit Vix etiam quaenis sterilis reperitur in illis Donec eius aetas talia posse negat That is to say Some Nunnes are barren and some bearing best Yet all are Virgins at principall Feasts She that is Abbesse as doth her befall In fruitfull bearing is best of them all Scarce one shall you finde among the whole rout That is vnfruitfull till age comes about But now adaies God be blessed this Sect among others is quite extinguished for since the dissolution of the Abbeys here in England which was in the reigne of King Henry the eight or to say the truth since the beginning of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth these Gilbertins were neuer heard of Of the Bethlemit Friers Balaeus in Appendice ABout the yeare of our Lord 1257. the Bethlemit Friers began to peepe into the world Their first dwelling was at Cambridge and their habite was like the Dominican Friers sauing that these did weare a starre in their brest wrought vpon their habite in memoriall of the Starre that did appeare at the time that our Sauiour was borne in Bethlem There were so many Sects of Monks Friers and Nuns at that time vpon a sodaine